Research and Education with Scrap

End of Life Management (EOL) is currently a hot topic in the electronics industry. Currently mostly IT equipment and goods of consumer electronics are considered. There are three possibilities depending on the age and kind of the device: Resell – Reuse – Recycle called the “3R's”. For recycling fully or semi-automated disassembly will gain in importance in the nearest future. Designers have to take into account EOL because of regulations and laws as well as according to ethical codes contributing to protection of the environment.In this paper a definitely new approach for Reuse is presented. Mostly in developing countries laboratory equipment for education and research is very expensive. Therefore we produced such equipments form hard- and software scrap.